An economic study of tea industry in India: A stock taking for six and half decades
International Journal of Development Research
An economic study of tea industry in India: A stock taking for six and half decades
Received 07th July, 2018; Received in revised form 21st August, 2018; Accepted 02nd September, 2018; Published online 30th October, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Mousumi Das and Sankaran, A. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In this study an attempt has been made to assess the performance of tea industry in India for the past six and half decades. In order to assess the trend of the tea industry in India, the time series data have been collected from tea board of India and other published materials for the period of 67 years from 1951-52 to 2016-17. The variables used in the study includes total area allotted for the cultivation of tea (thousand hectares), total number of members involved in the production of tea (in numbers), total value of production and total value of exports both are in terms of monetary value. The result of the study revealed that the total area allotted for the cultivation of tea and the volume of production have been increasing in the absolute term. An amazing performance was shown by export of tea production over the period under study. At the same time, the employment generated by the tea sector was not appreciable, showed a fluctuating trend. This may be due to mechanization process and closure of some branches particularly in West Bengal and Assam.
